Do things really change?

Buzz

My phone vibrates, and I unlock it.
"Good Morn…" , the message said.
I typed back the customary "heya Morning.." knowing quite well what was to follow next..
And I was right! "ssup? " came through.
"tp.. u say.."
"same here.. :)"
" :) "
I stare at the screen, knowing the conversation has ended.
Still hoping something will pop up on d screen anyway.
I think of coming up with something myself.
With a sigh, I put my phone away…
and am left wondering…
Where did things go wrong…?
When was it that everything changed...?
Inadvertently my mind flops over to the olden times…
When we used to spend hours texting, talking illogical stuff over the phone…
Numerous excuses to other friends…and what not!!!

A quote I had read somewhere flashes across my mind…
"Day by day nothing changes…but when you look back... everything is different"and

"Busiest is the one who has time for everything :p"

Things go by on their own pace…
And those momentary thoughts get washed away from my mind…
Suddenly d very next day…the other best buddy pings...
The friend who has been with…throughout...school, college and everywhere throughout your life…even when you were busy otherwise ;)
and i stare at the text with the biggest, SMILE :p

Wondering…whatever happens, she’ll never forget pinging you :)
after school ended… everyone became busy with their own lives..
Meetings became a scarce thing…
and phone calls receded to the extent of just calls on each other's b'days…
but we? Never have left each other…
As soon I got my back... It was 4 hours of non-stop chatter…
and it was like no time has passed…
we were back to the good old days…the new days…all the “updates”!
Chattering the minutes away !!!
Even later, I couldn't help but smile…
Time... Distances (not much though :p)... Busy schedules…
All these stuff really don't matter…
Coz friendship survives them all...
Things change... people change… priorities change…
But the space you carve in each other’s hearts remains the same…
There might be moments when you are left thinking back…
wishing for the old days to come back…
but sooner or later... the realization strikes…
everything happens for a reason…
and time once past... cannot be reverted back !!!
And so I ultimately try my best… Unlock my phone…type in "ssup?” (To continue the previous conversation) and hit send
There is a smile on my face while am doing that…
‘Hope is still alive...’

And friendship survives… :)

Lilies can never be Roses!

One of the best stories I have ever read.

Once upon a time, a father took his son to a revered spiritual guru. He complained that his son was deeply interested in pursuing a career in music, but he wanted him to pursue a career in agriculture. “Please guide him master,” the father pleaded, “for many months I have been trying to convince him that by pursuing agriculture, he can earn more money for the family, but he just doesn’t listen. All he does is fiddle with his instruments the whole day long.”

The master did not say anything but requested the father to meet him the next day.

And the father did as he was told, and reached the monastery early next morning. He looked everywhere but couldn’t find the master. Finally, he was about to leave, he saw the master standing in the corner of the garden outside the monastery. He seemed to be in a really bad temper.

“I want you to be roses! Don’t you understand?” he was screaming to a fresh lily blossom. “I want you to be roses!”

To the father’s amazement, he went to the master and asked about what was on?

And the master replied, “I have been telling them to be roses. But they just don’t seem to listen!”

Father: “But why do you want roses?”

Master: “Because roses will get me more money!”

Father: “But how can you expect a lily plant to bear roses?”

“The same way you expect a musician to become a farmer!” the master chuckled.

The father instantly understood. From that day onwards, he stopped nagging at his son and instead focused on his innate talent. And legend says, that little boy became one of the greatest musicians that the country had produced!

You are the best when you are YOU!

Reference: Book - He Swam With Sharks for An Ice-cream

Enjoy the Coffee...and not the cups! ;)

A group of highly educated students visited their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering them coffee, Professor returned from kitchen with a pot of coffee and an assortment of cups, porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain ones. While it is but normal for U to want only the best, that’s also the source of your stress. What U really wanted was coffee, not the cup; But you still went for the best cups & were eyeing each other’s cups!”

If life is coffee, then jobs, money and status in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life. Don’t let the cups drive U. Enjoy the coffee!!

DON’T SETTLE

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…Don’t settle!

-Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, on June 12, 2005.

The story of an ANT!

One morning, I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather across the park. Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its path and after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour. At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide. After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way.

I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God’s smallest creatures. It served to reinforce the miracle of creation. Here was a minute insect, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason, explore, discover and overcome. But this ant, like the two-legged co-residents of this planet, also shares human failings. After some time the ant finally reached its destination – a flower bed at the end of the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And it was here that the ant finally met its match. How could that large feather possibly fit down that small hole? Of course it couldn’t. So the ant, after all this trouble and exercising great ingenuity, overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather and went home.
The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden. Isn’t life like that! We worry about our family, we worry about money or the lack of it, and we worry about work, about where we live, about all sorts of things. These are all burdens – the things we pick up along life’s path and lug them around the obstacles and over the crevasses that life will bring, only to find that at the destination they are useless and we can’t take them with us!

-Read many a times at various places..and love this article and hence posted!

Being Veggie!

Happened long back, while dining with some colleagues. During the casual discussion of how the day was spent, one of my friends, who was sitting next to me said that she had "Biryaani" during lunch! Chicken Biryaani...!!! Arghhhh...!!! I couldn't continue my dinner comfortably. Okay, for all who don't know, I'm a hardcore vegetarian! As in, I could not imagine myself sitting next to the person who had gulped an innocent chicken just a few hours before. The pictures of that poor life residing into my friend's stomach were flashing in my mind.

This may sound funny to read. But on a serious note, we crib so much when we find a cockroach or any small insect in the food. How can we be happy killing million such innocent lives, of chicken, of goats, of cows and what not, only to satisfy our taste buds? Imagine, A chicken is being killed "live" in front of you!!! Can you see that? Can you bear that? I guess not. Ek zindagii kii peeda hum kaise dekh sakte hain? And if it is about being health-conscious, fit and strong, look at veggies! They're absolutely fit and fine. So can everyone else be, without being a non-vegetarian!

21 Laws of Computer Programming

 

1) Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.
2) It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5) Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.
6) Software expands to consume all available resources.
7) Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.
8) The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.
9) Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.
10) Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
11) The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.
12) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
13) Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at in months might as well have been written by someone else.
14) Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.
15) The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.
16) A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.
17) Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.
18) A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.
19) If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.
20) Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
21) Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

HAPPY CODING! :)